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whitehead¹

Where it comes from

From white + head.

noun whiteheads

  1. A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium. Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.

    Similar: closed comedo

  2. A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
  3. The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
  4. The surf scoter duck.
  5. A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.

Whitehead²

Where it comes from

From white + head.

proper noun Whiteheads

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
  3. countable, uncountable A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.
  4. countable, uncountable A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
  6. countable, uncountable A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.

noun Whiteheads

  1. A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: milium, white, roger, rapporteur, vaughan, comedone, comedo, pimple, zit, acne, spot, milia, blemish, pustule, papule, bump

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noun pimple

DeutschMitesser, Komedo

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@misc{whitehead_2026,
  title = {whitehead},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whitehead},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}